What Trump has realized is that the first headline is all that matters. The subsequent follow-up is irrelevant. People think Trump saved those Carrier jobs. He really didn't. But the headlines said he did and the follow-ups that explained "It's complicated" get lost.

This is Trump's media hack, and it works brilliantly (sadly). Given our current media environment, I have little faith that they can embrace the complexity necessary for this to work in the service of factual accuracy.